Jeremy Bloom

I am a Consultant Solicitor representing individuals and organisations on a range of Public Law and Immigration related matters including challenges to unlawful decisions, policies and practices of public bodies. I take on legal aid, private and conditional fee agreement matters. I am a strategic litigator and have led multiple complex and far-reaching judicial review claims which have resulted in successful outcomes for clients and changes to the law which benefit others.

I have a wealth of experience representing members of the Windrush generation and their families in immigration, compensation and judicial review matters. I also lead work in relation to access to justice, the application of legal aid regulations and the lawfulness of decision-making in this area. I have worked with clients to obtain excellent outcomes on judicial review claims in the immigration sphere, including challenges to delays in decision-making, the certification of asylum and human rights claims, and unlawful detention.

I qualified as a solicitor in December 2019, and I was recognised as Junior Lawyer of the Year in 2021 by the Law Society for my work championing the rights of the Windrush generation and in the area of access to justice. My previous career included a period of 3 years working as a Treaty Manager at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, monitoring the implementation of the UK's international human rights obligations, and around 7 years working at Amnesty International in a range of roles, including managing international human rights campaigns and overseeing the organisation’s global submissions to UN Human Rights mechanisms.

• Admitted as a Solicitor (December 2019)
• LLM International Human Rights Law, (Distinction), 2013, University of Essex
• Legal Practice Course, (Distinction), 2017, University of Law
• Graduate Diploma in Law, (Pass), 2015, BPP
• Bachelor of Arts, Spanish, (2:1), 2005, University of Bristol

• Consultant Solicitor, Jeremy Bloom Legal Services (February 2025 - Present)
• Solicitor and Supervisor, Duncan Lewis Solicitors (December 2019 - January 2025)
• Trainee Solicitor, Duncan Lewis Solicitors (September 2017 - November 2019)
• Treaty Manager, Equality and Human Rights Commission (August 2014 - August 2017)
• Assistant Advocate, Amnesty International (January 2014 - July 2014)
• Campaigner, Central America and Mexico, Amnesty International (February 2011 - August 2012)
• Online Communities Officer, Amnesty International (November 2008 - January 2011)

• Recommended Lawyer - Legal 500 UK (2024, 2025)
• Recipient of the Junior Lawyer of the Year Award at the Law Society Excellence Awards (2021)
• Shortlisted for the Lawyer of the Year Award at the Modern Law Awards (2022)

Supreme Court

• R (VT and Others) v The Commissioner for the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT SC/No3 and 4/2023), in which the Supreme Court of the BIOT held that English legal aid law applies in the BIOT. https://www.matrixlaw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Judgment-for-publication.pdf

Court of Appeal

• DM v the Secretary of State for the Home Department, CA-2024-001818 (Ongoing): The Appellant challenges the immigration rules governing applications for family reunion where the sponsor is a child who wishes to reunite with his parents.


• Secretary of State for the Home Department and Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities v IAB and Others [2024] EWCA Civ 66. A case in which the Court of Appeal ruled that it was in breach of the duty of candour of public bodies routinely to redact the names of civil servants from documents disclosed in litigation. https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2024/66.html

High Court

• R (RH) v the Secretary of State for the Home Department, AC-2024-LON-001716 (Ongoing). The Claimant challenges the change to the Immigration Rules preventing care workers from bringing their dependants with them when they are granted leave to come to the UK.


• R (Duncan Lewis) v the Lord Chancellor, AC-2024-LON-001935. The Claimant challenged the Lord Chancellor’s failure to increase rates for immigration legal aid since 1996. The claim was settled upon the Defendant confirming that she will make a decision on increasing rates. The decision that followed represented an increase in rates of around 34%. https://www.duncanlewis.co.uk/onlinelinks/R%20(Duncan%20Lewis)%20v%20Lord%20Chancellor%20-%20Sealed%20Order%20-%2025.09.2024.pdf


• R (Vernon Vanriel and Eunice Tumi) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 3415 (Admin). A challenge to the Home Secretary’s decisions that she had no discretion to grant citizenship to Windrush victims which was upheld on Article 8 and 14 ECHR grounds. https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2021/3415.html


• R (SM) v The Lord Chancellor [2021] EWHC 418 (Admin). A challenge to the less favourable legal aid arrangements for immigration detainees held in prisons compared with those held in Immigration Removal Centres, upheld on Article 14 ECHR.https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2021/418.html


• R (KA and Others) v SSHD, concerning a challenge to the requirement for Afghan individuals to enrol their biometrics before their entry clearance applications can be considered. https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2022/2473.html


• R (Public and Commercial Services Union and Care for Calais) v SSHD, CO/4338/2021, a challenge to the lawfulness of the policy of turning around small boats in the English Channel which led to the withdrawal of that policy. https://www.duncanlewis.co.uk/news/Home_Office_backs_down_on_refugee_pushbacks_policy_in_the_face_of_legal_challenge_by_Duncan_Lewis_and_others___(26_April_2022).html


• R (Mahabir) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 1177 (Admin). A successful challenge to the failure of the Home Secretary to provide an affordable application process for family members of a Windrush victim to obtain entry clearance or leave in the UK. https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2021/1177.html


• Duncan Lewis v the Lord Chancellor: a successful challenge to the Lord Chancellor’s position that he did not have the power to backdate legal aid grants, which led to an amendment to Regulation 35 of the Civil Legal Aid (Procedure) Regulations 2012. https://www.duncanlewis.co.uk/news/Duncan_Lewis_wins_access_to_justice_challenge_against_Legal_Aid_Agency_and_Lord_Chancellor_(5_October_2018).html

• Accredited Senior Caseworker and Supervising Senior Caseworker under the Law Society Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme

• High Court Rules Kidnap for Ransom Constitutes Exploitation in Trafficking Claims (10 March 2025)
• Legal Aid Challenge and Neurodiversity Project Highly Commended at Modern Law Awards (7 March 2025)
• In the Press: Legal Aid Fee Reform garners Significant Media Attention (3 December 2024)
• Lord Chancellor to raise rates by 30% for immigration and asylum controlled work after Duncan Lewis challenge (29 November 2024)
• Legal Aid Crisis must be fixed by adequate increase in rates for Immigration and Asylum, Jeremy Bloom Tells Law Gazette (29 November 2024)
• In the Press: Big Issue Highlights Duncan Lewis Public Law Team Amid Legal Aid Developments (17 October 2024)
• In the Press: Lord Chancellor's Commitment to Legal Aid Rate Decision by November Draws Media Attention (2 October 2024)
• Lord Chancellor Commits to November Decision on Legal Aid Rate Increase for Immigration and Asylum in response to claim brought by Duncan Lewis (27 September 2024)
• Duncan Lewis’ Solicitor Urges Labour Government to Act Swiftly Quoted on Legal Aid Reform in Law Gazette (2 September 2024)
• Press: Duncan Lewis Takes Government to Court over Legal Aid Fees (13 June 2024)
• Duncan Lewis Solicitor Criticises Home Office over Family Visa Policies for Care Workers (3 May 2024)
• Sri Lankan asylum seekers stranded in Diego Garcia win right to legal aid (5 May 2023)
• Duncan Lewis clients bring judicial review claim challenging their Group 2 status (27 April 2023)
• Crucial Duncan Lewis challenge on behalf of Windrush victim covered in the Independent (21 February 2023)
• Government should use Windrush Day to rethink broken compensation scheme (22 June 2022)
• Channel “pushbacks” policy abandoned (Free Movement) (28 April 2022)
• Home Office backs down on refugee pushbacks policy in the face of legal challenge by Duncan Lewis and others (26 April 2022)
• Court orders disclosure of key elements of the Home Office’s Pushbacks Policy (22 April 2022)
• Duncan Lewis wins challenge to Legal Aid Agency’s refusal to backdate funding for Queen’s Counsel (8 April 2022)
• Duncan Lewis Solicitors and Jeremy Bloom shortlisted for Modern Law Awards (16 March 2022)
• Permission granted to bring a judicial review claim against the lawfulness of the UK Government’s evacuation of British nationals and their dependants from Afghanistan (20 January 2022)
• PCS and Care4Calais challenge the Home Office Pushbacks Policy (6 January 2022)
• Windrush: high court rules claimants’ human rights breached by Home Office (The Guardian) (17 December 2021)
• High Court rules that refusal of British citizenship to Windrush Claimants is in breach of human rights (16 December 2021)
• James Packer Highly Commended for Human Rights Lawyer of the Year and Jeremy Bloom Wins Junior Lawyer of the Year at the Law Society Excellence Awards 2021 (8 October 2021)
• Home Office hotels for asylum seekers ‘akin to detention centres’ – report (The Guardian) (16 September 2021)
• Duncan Lewis Solicitors shortlisted for three awards at The Law Society Excellence Awards 2021 (4 August 2021)
• Five Duncan Lewis clients challenge the consultation on the Home Office’s new plan for immigration (9 June 2021)
• High Court finds colossal interference in Windrush rights by Home Office (LexisNexis) (13 May 2021)
• Home Office unlawfully stopped family joining Windrush woman (Multiple Sources) (7 May 2021)
• High Court finds colossal interference in Windrush rights by Home Office (6 May 2021)
• Court declares legal aid arrangements for immigration detainees in prisons to be unlawful (25 February 2021)
• Home Office abandons unlawful plans to house asylum seekers at Yarl’s Wood (9 February 2021)
• Yarl's wood to get extension to house asylum seekers (RT UK) (19 January 2021)
• Duncan Lewis secures significant changes to UK aid provided to Libya (19 January 2021)
• R (SM) v the Lord Chancellor: Government announces review into provision of legal aid for immigration detainees held in prisons (9 December 2020)
• R (SM) v the Lord Chancellor: unequal access to legal aid for immigration detainees held in prisons (25 November 2020)
• Windrush scheme falls short of righting wrongs (Law Gazette) (2 October 2020)
• Duncan Lewis Solicitors challenge discriminatory refusal of citizenship under the Windrush Scheme (27 August 2020)
• Lord Chancellor concedes Legal Aid Regulations are unlawful (11 August 2020) (ILPA) (26 August 2020)
• Lord Chancellor accepts unlawfulness of new Legal Aid scheme for immigration and asylum appeals (11 August 2020)
• High Court grants permission to challenge concerning access to legal aid for immigration detainees held in prison (7 July 2020)
• D & Ors v The Lord Chancellor & Anor [2020] EWHC 736 (Admin) - clients awarded their costs in claim against the Tribunal (1 July 2020)
• Lord Chancellor could face JR over immigration fee change (The Law Society Gazette) (29 May 2020)
• Duncan Lewis Solicitors challenge amendments to the Remuneration Regulations (29 May 2020)
• Legal prospects available for Windrush clients with children born outside the UK (23 October 2019)
• Asylum seeker denied cancer treatment by Home Office dies (The Guardian) (26 September 2019)
• Ethiopian asylum seeker dies after being denied cancer treatment by the Home Office (26 September 2019)
• Regulations to create backdating power made in response to litigation by Duncan Lewis (1 February 2019)
• Public Law’s Jeremy Bloom speaks at the Young Legal Aid Lawyers meeting discussing Duncan Lewis’ LAA Challenges (15 January 2019)
• Duncan Lewis Solicitors Challenge the Lack of Immigration Advice in the Prison Estate (5 November 2018)
• Government to amend regulations in response to Duncan Lewis access to justice challenge against Legal Aid Agency and Lord Chancellor (5 October 2018)
• Duncan Lewis Solicitors challenges the Legal Aid Agency’s rules on backdating of funding (5 July 2018)
• UK authorities deny chemotherapy to asylum seeker (Medical Brief) (18 June 2018)
• Home Office prevented asylum seeker's urgent cancer treatment (Guardian) (8 June 2018)
• Duncan Lewis Solicitors client promised life-saving cancer treatment in high-profile case (25 April 2018)
• Jeremy Bloom features on ITV discussing Albert Thompson’s plea for cancer treatment (20 April 2018)
• Albert Thompson and the Windrush Generation: NHS Treatment Still Uncertain (BBC and Guardian) (20 April 2018)
• Client of Duncan Lewis denied cancer treatment causes widespread outrage (Guardian, Independent, Metro) (16 March 2018)
• Londoner denied NHS cancer care: 'It's like I'm being left to die' (The Guardian) (13 March 2018)
• R (on the application of SB and Duncan Lewis) Vs Director of the Legal Aid Agency and the Lord Chancellor (12 January 2018)